Fantastic Four Movie: Okay for a 6 year old?

[seawasp]

I don't need opinions on the quality of the movie, just whether it's any less suitable for young kids than the first FF movie, and why if it's not.

Comments

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

Okay in the sense of "not too violent or scary"?

Off the top of my head... I think it's about on par with the first movie, in that sense. A few people do get killed in not-very-graphic ways. The violence tends towards the cartoony -- they get a couple of nigh-Looney-Tunes moments with Mr. Fantastic's deformable body.

There is one scene of a guy who's been, I guess, "calcified" and killed, and about half of his body has been sheared away. That's the most disturbing image I can think of, and it's not too different from the scene in the first movie where Victor zaps a hole through some schmuck's chest.

Of course, it's hard to predict what might frighten a kid. When I was about that age, the Doc Savage movie terrified the crap out of me. Go figure.

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

Andrew Wheeler took his 6yo and didn't have any problems.

[k-kinnison.livejournal.com]

Personally... I wouldn't take a 6 year old to the movie.

8 is more likely

The idea of a big cloud eating up earth and a silver guy digging big holes is a little too much for a kid that age to understand.

Of course my parents took me to see Poltergeist when I was 7. Years of therapy can do wonders to ones perceptions

[fireheart1974.livejournal.com]

(Can't comment on the movie...sorry!)

Came across your LJ while researching your name after reading Digital Knight (wanted to know if there were more books!).

Hope it's okay, I friended you.
Thanks!
~Fireheart

Be sure...

[shana.livejournal.com]

To read the Jason Wood Story, _Shadow of Fear_, that he posted on April 22.

It's ALWAYS okay...

[seawasp]

... to be friended by a new fan!

There are no more Jason Wood books yet. However, as my Loyal Lieutenant Shana says, I did post the entirety of the next Jason story, "Shadow of Fear", in this very journal a month or two ago. Those on my beta-reading list (community name rykspoor_beta) have also gotten to read the story after that, titled "Trial Run", plus the first draft of the sequel to Boundary, the hard-SF novel by me and Eric Flint, and several chapters of other solo works I'm working on, plus other little odds and ends.

Re: Be sure...

[fireheart1974.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll definitely go look for that!
~T

Re: It's ALWAYS okay...

[fireheart1974.livejournal.com]

Cool! I'll definitely go back and read "Shadow of Fear." If it's okay, I'd love to join the beta reading list as well. I've read Diamonds are Forever but not Boundary yet so I'm a bit behind!
Thank you!
~T

Re: It's ALWAYS okay...

[seawasp]

Of course you can join. It's the LJ community "rykspoor_beta", and as soon as I get your request to join I'll okay it.

If you haven't read "Boundary" you don't want to read the sections of "Threshold" which I posted, though, since "Threshold" is the sequel.

Re: It's ALWAYS okay...

[fireheart1974.livejournal.com]

Cool. Thanks! I'll skip those sections until I can get to a bookstore!
~T